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[[Image:Pedro Luis Borgia.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Cesare Borgia]] ''(far left)'' and [[Pedro Luis de Borja Lanzol de Romaní]] ''(center left)'', two of [[Pope Alexander VI]]'s ten cardinal-nephews, depicted with [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] ''(center right)'']]
According to [[Thomas Adolphus Trollope]], a famed papal historian, "the evil wrought by them in and to the church has been well nigh fatal to it; and it continued to increase until increasing danger warned the Pontiffs to abstain. The worst cardinals, providing, of course, the material for the worst Popes, have been for the most part cardinal nephews, the temptation to the creation of such having been rendered to great to be resisted by the exorbitant greatness of the power, dignity, and wealth attributed to the members of the Sacred College. The value of these great "prizes" was so enormous, that the "hat" became an object of ambition to princes, and it was the primary object with a long series of Popes to bestow it on their kinsmen."<ref>Trollope, 1876, p. 138.</ref>
===Cardinale
{{vedi anche|Cardinale Segretario di Stato}}
The curial office of [[Cardinal Secretary of State]] in many ways evolved from the roles formerly filled by cardinal-nephews. From 1644 to 1692, the power of the Cardinal Secretary of State was essentially inversely proportional to that of the Cardinal Nephew, to whom the Secretariat was subordinate.<ref name="c299">Chadwick, 1981, p. 299.</ref> During some pontificates, for example that of [[Pope Pius V]] (1566–1572) and his nephew [[Michele Bonelli]], the cardinal-nephew and secretary of state were one and the same.<ref>Setton, 1984, p. 912.</ref>
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